EDNOTE.

Priscilla Meyer, current President of the Vladimir Nabokov Society, is
completing her term in December. In January 2006, Zoran Kuzmanovich, current
vice-president and editor of NABOKOV STUDIES, becomes President of the Society
for a two-year term. (2006-2008). The by-laws require an election for the
vacated VP office.
The nominating committee has put forward two distinguished Nabokovians as
candidates. Brief resumes follow.

ONLY SOCIETY MEMBERS -IN-GOOD-STANDING ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE. PLEASE VOTE BY FORWARDING THIS E-MAIL TO PRISCILLA MEYER (ADDRESS ABOVE) AFTER WRITING EITHER "BLACKWELL" OR
"CONNOLLY" IN THE SUBJECT LINE. The deadline is December 1, 2005.

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STEPHEN BLACKWELL received his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures
at Indiana University.  Since 1995 he as been teaching Russian
literature and language at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. 
The author of several articles on Nabokov, he has also published Zina's
Paradox: The Figured Reader in Nabokov's Gift (2000), and co-edited
(with three others) the Festschrift In Other Words: Essays to Honor
Vadim Liapunov (2000).  He has also written about Nikolai Gogol, Lev
Tolstoy, Iulii Aikhenvald, and Mikhail Bulgakov. He is currently
conducting research for a book about the interrelations of Nabokov's
scientific and artistic sensibilities; this project was awarded an NEH
summer stipend in 2005.

JULIAN W. CONNOLLY received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.  He is
currently Professor at the University of Virginia, and serves as Chair
of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.  He is the
author of Ivan Bunin (1982), Nabokov's Early Fiction: Patterns of Self
and Other (1992), and The Intimate Stranger: Meetings with the Devil in
Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature (2001).  He also edited the
volumes Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading: A Course Companion
(1997),  Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives (1999), and most
recently, The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov (2005).   He has written
extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature.


Priscilla Meyer
Russian Department
212 Fisk Hall
Wesleyan University
Middletown CT 06459
(860) 685-3127 (work)
(860) 347-0059 (home)
http://pmeyer.web.wesleyan.edu

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Dear Don,

Here are the short biographies of the two candidates for Vice President of the VNS, starting January 1, 2006. Please post them, with your instructions for how to vote, declaring the polls open from November 17 to Dec 1.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions and general centrality to everything Nabokovian!

Priscilla

STEPHEN BLACKWELL received his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Indiana University.  Since 1995 he as been teaching Russian literature and language at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.  The author of several articles on Nabokov, he has also published Zina's Paradox: The Figured Reader in Nabokov's Gift (2000), and co-edited (with three others) the Festschrift In Other Words: Essays to Honor Vadim Liapunov (2000).  He has also written about Nikolai Gogol, Lev Tolstoy, Iulii Aikhenvald, and Mikhail Bulgakov. He is currently conducting research for a book about the interrelations of Nabokov's scientific and artistic sensibilities; this project was awarded an NEH summer stipend in 2005.

JULIAN W. CONNOLLY received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.  He is currently Professor at the University of Virginia, and serves as Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.  He is the author of Ivan Bunin (1982), Nabokov's Early Fiction: Patterns of Self and Other (1992), and The Intimate Stranger: Meetings with the Devil in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature (2001).  He also edited the volumes Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading: A Course Companion (1997),  Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives (1999), and most recently, The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov (2005).   He has written extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature.

Priscilla Meyer

Russian Department

212 Fisk Hall

Wesleyan University

Middletown CT 06459

(860) 685-3127 (work)

(860) 347-0059 (home)

http://pmeyer.web.wesleyan.edu